Author: Shari Gallop
Building the research capacity of Early Career Scientists in the Indian Ocean
Building research capacity of Early Career Scientists: The Indian Ocean Early Career Scientists Network (IO-ECSN) by Danielle Su WICGE member Danielle Su shares her experience of ‘imposter syndrome’ and how Early Career Scientists can work together to build research capacity, in this case, for those working on the Indian Ocean. On December 2015, I was […]
“You’re doing a PhD part time while working full time?! Are you insane?”
What it like working full time as a Project Manger and doing a PhD at the same time? Jemma Purandare shares her experience. “You’re doing a PhD part time while working full time?! Are you insane?”… If I had a dollar for every time someone said that to me, I would be able to take […]
Shari Gallop on gender bias and setting up WICGE, published in Nature
Today WICGE is featured in Nature, in a column authored by WICGE committee member Dr. Shari Gallop. This column focuses on Shari’s experiences of gender bias in science, and her role in founding Women in Coastal Geoscience and Engineering, together with the other committee members. Read the article here.
Avoiding the chicken and egg: Gaining experience in coastal geosciences and engineering
by Dr Siddhi Joshi, Being a young scientist can be quite tough at the start. Whether you are a dedicated student or early career scientist, often it is easy to find yourself in a bit of a chicken and egg situation: “To get a job you need experience, but to get experience you need a […]
2 PhD Projects at University of Western Australia: Fisheries ecology and oceanography to inform management of the western rock lobster
The iconic western rock lobster, Panulirus cygnus , supports both a popular recreational fishery and Australia’s most valuable single species commercial fishery. The Western Rock Lobster Council (WRLC) and Fisheries Research Development Corporation have funded the University of Western Australia (UWA) andDepartment of Primary Industries and Regional Development-Fisheries (DPIRD) to investigate an area at the […]
Can we have it all? – by Peta Leahy
Being asked recently to contribute to WICGE was very humbling, but on what to blog about became very a very daunting task. A few ideas were thrown at me – my journey through the Australian Coastal Society of which I am now the first female Chairperson, my role as a senior researcher at the Griffith […]
New open access resource for teaching beach morphodynamics
A new teaching resource is available for teaching beach morphodynamics to university-level students: Gallop, S.L., Harley, M.D., Brander, R.W., Simmons, J., Splinter, K.D., Turner, I.L. 2017. Assessing cross-shore and alongshore variation in beach morphology due to wave climate: Storms to decades. Oceanography 30(3), 120–125. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2017.304 This open-access paper has just been published in Oceanography and consists […]
Closing the science gender gap: we need to increase the public presence of women in STEM by Dr. Megan Sebben, CDM Smith
Closing the science gender gap: we need to increase the public presence of women in STEM by Dr. Megan Sebben, CDM Smith I wasn’t one of those kids who knew what they wanted to do when they grew up. In fact, at 28, I’m still not exactly sure what I want to do. I’ve always […]
Dr Siddhi Joshi
Siddhi recently completed her doctorate and post doctoral research in coastal marine sediment dynamics and biogeosciences at National University of Ireland, Galway. During her PhD she focused on the unique sediment transport properties of maerl or rhodolith habitats (coralline algae habitats found in the West of Ireland and beyond). She is a semi-professional documentary maker […]
At a land down under, women glow when Science meets Parliament
by dr Graziela Miot da Silva, Flinders University I had the opportunity to attend the 18th Science meets Parliament (SmP) event in Canberra (21 and 22 March 2017), promoted by Science and Technology Australia (STA). The main goal of this event is to improve the understanding between science and political stakeholders by saturating Parliament with science […]
Coastal Pride: An LGBTI women’s experience of Coastal Geoscience
By Dr. Siddhi Joshi, coastal geoscientist and oceanographer As a coastal marine scientist and a global LGBTI rights activist, I wanted to write a blog post which explored an LGBTI woman’s experience in coastal geosciences and engineering. My main motivation is to engage in dialogue over the aspects that haunted me throughout the early stages of […]
Introducing new journal Anthropocene Coasts
A Look to the Future A multidisciplinary international journal, Anthropocene Coasts brings together diverse fields of study to tackle complex issues related to coastal regions in the Anthropocene. Anthropocene Coasts publishes research on some of the most complex questions facing human-influenced coastal environments. A forum to discuss anthropogenic change, specifically in the context of coastal […]
Long-term Observations of Coastal Foredune Variability: North Carolina, USA, April 10 in Sydney
WICGE in conjunction with the NSW Coasts, Oceans, and Ports Engineering Panel (COPEP) is hosting a talk in Sydney by Dr. Meg Palmsten, Naval Research Labs (USA) on April 10. Anyone in the Sydney area (or beyond) is welcome to attend. Dr Meg Palmsten, U.S. Naval Research Lab Coastal foredunes along developed coastlines are dynamic […]
Embracing imperfections and rising in your career and life
with Dr Graziela Miot da Silva, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Hello blog world, here it is, my first time giving you a try. For some time I have thought about sharing the experiences I had when moving countries and starting new jobs. Within ten years I moved countries twice and started 3 new jobs, all while […]
Girls with drones – by Stephanie Duce
Girls with drones by Stephanie Duce, lecturer at James Cook University A quick google search of “girls with drones” currently returns more pictures of bikinis and bottoms than propellers and controllers… but that is something that will hopefully change in the near future particularly with the work of organisations like She Flies. Recently, I was […]
Funding for ECR’s to attend Regional Sea-Level Change and Coastal Impacts, due Feb 15th
Regional Sea-Level Change and Coastal Impacts conference 10-14 July 2017, Columbia University, New-York (NY) “Future Earth Coasts are making available 2 bursaries for Early Career/Global South participants to attend the WCRP/IOC “Regional Sea-Level Change and Coastal Impacts” conference 10-14 July 2017, Columbia University, New-York (NY) – USA. See http://sealevel2017.org for further details. Each bursary will have a value […]